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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:16:01 MST
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- From: Bob Wier <rrw@SUNSET.CSE.NAU.EDU>
- Subject: Weather Satellite Receivre
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- Here is a cross post from the weather fax mailing list.
- Does anyone know anything more about this?
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- THANKS
-
- - Bob Wier
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- Does anyone receive Weatherwise or the American Weather Observer? I'm
- now seeing advertisements for a cheap digital weather satellite
- reception system (re: Weatherwise Jan 93/back cover, AWO Dec 92 page 5).
-
- The company running the ads is Data Transmission Network Corporation
- in Chicago. They mention a startup fee of $250, and quote a price of $1.31
- a day. They include a free reception computer, monitor, and 32" Ku satellite
- dish with cables and free shipping. The ads show some impressive color
- graphics, such as small-scale radar composites, satellite photos, etc. It's
- hard to tell who the products come from (they look like broadcast quality
- graphics), but offhand I don't see any good raw DIFAX-like products like
- LFM, NGM output etc.
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- This seems to be a very attractive deal, but I'm wondering if anyone
- might suspect a "catch" here... even at $250 and $40 a month, it looks almost
- too good to be true. Could it be the absence of any raw data? Any comments
- or observations?
-
- Tim
-
- p.s. Thanks to all who responded to my FROIN question...
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- Tim Vasquez 71611.2267@COMPUSERVE.COM
- Chanute AFB, IL
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